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...well as sinew, in whittling down the yardstick infinitesimally. In 1906 the world's record for 100 yards was set at 9.6 sec. Last May Eddie Tolan, short, spectacled Negro student in the University of Michigan, ran 100 yards in 9.5 sec. in the Western Conference championships at Evanston, Ill. Last week in Berlin the International Amateur Athletic Federation officially decided that Tolan's time was a new world's record...
They ran the preliminaries in a driving rain at Evanston, Ill. Simpson and Tolan won their heats as expected. Simpson's time of 9.7 was one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. Tolan was smart, said Michigan supporters: He was not going to run his heart out in the tryouts. Let Simpson show off all he wanted to. Next day the rain cleared off but left the air cold and windy. Going to the line the runners kept their sweaters on as long as they could. As they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into...
Elected. Dr. George Craig Stewart, 50, of Evanston, Ill.; to be Bishop Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago; automatic successor to recently elected Bishop Sheldon Munson Griswold...
...month for TJ. S. music festivals. Worthy ones held recently were the Harrisburg (Pa.) Mozart Festival, the Ann Arbor (Mich.) May Festival, the Keene (N. H.) Chorus Club Festival, the Chicago-North Shore Music , Festival (Evanston, Ill.) and the National Negro I Music Festival (Philadelphia...
...Evanston, Ill., Robert Smith, 13, wondered if he could drop a lighted match through the small hole of a manhole cover over a sewer. He succeeded. The sewer gas exploded, blew Robert Smith aloft...